111 – The Truth of the Profound Turtle Continent

【You unleashed all your cards, going all out, but still couldn’t handle Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun and remained suppressed. You grew anxious, while on the contrary, Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun became increasingly excited. He never expected you to possess Heaven-level techniques and martial skills. If he could get all the treasures on you, his future would be very bright!】

【As a result, Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun became ruthless and used a secret technique to forcibly enhance his combat strength. Faced with his fierce assault, you fell into a significant disadvantage once again. In the end, you hardened your heart and chose to self-destruct, severely injuring Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun. Using the opportunity provided by the Rebirth Talisman, you resurrected and crazily attacked him again.】

【Eventually, employing a strategy that harmed yourself as much as the enemy, you finally killed Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun. After taking his Storage Spirit Ring, you fought your way out of the encirclement, escaping back to the deserted island where the Stele Formation was located. Activating the Stele Formation, you successfully teleported back to the Profound Turtle Continent.】

【Upon returning to the Profound Turtle Continent, you immediately destroyed part of the Stele Formation to prevent anyone else from teleporting over.】

“In the end, I still overestimated my own power… Indeed, before actually fighting, guessing recklessly about your strength is extremely arrogant.”

Wang Ping looked at the simulation content, sighing inwardly.

He had thought he could already challenge a Half-step Profound Elixir Realm expert above his level, but now it appeared he was too optimistic.

Now, he had obtained a Profound Weapon. Even though it wasn’t a sword, it should still enhance his combat power significantly.

However, even with that, he only managed to severely injure Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun through self-destruction and then killed him after reviving with the Rebirth Talisman.

It was evident just how powerful a Half-step Profound Elixir Realm expert could be.

And this was just an ordinary Half-step Profound Elixir Realm expert. If he encountered those from major sects in the Eastern Wilderness, their power would be unimaginable.

“Longevity is true strength… Although the techniques and martial arts of these old monsters aren’t as high-level as mine, they’ve practiced them thoroughly, achieving perfection and exerting formidable power. Additionally, their comprehension of intent is the most terrifying; they aren’t opponents you can easily kill by surpassing levels.”

Wang Ping sighed.

His current Sword Intent was at most at sixty percent peak.

In contrast, the Star Intention comprehended by Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun had reached the Small Perfection level, which was extremely terrifying.

One must know, from seventy to ninety percent, is the Major Perfection of intent, with significant differences between each level.

And Small Perfection is above ninety percent; the combat power it enhances is undoubtedly terrifying.

It was due to self-destruction and resurrection that he managed to kill Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun. In a regular battle, Wang Ping knew the probability of his own defeat was much higher.

Subsequently, Wang Ping concentrated his emotions and continued to focus on the screen.

【Thereafter, you began recuperating. After your injuries healed, you returned to the Sword Spirit Sect and started cultivating quietly, occasionally nurturing individuals like Bai Tianhong.】

【Because you acquired Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun’s Storage Spirit Ring, the resources inside were enough to sustain your cultivation for a long time. Thus, you didn’t need to stress and could focus on your cultivation.】

【Thirty years passed. Your cultivation successfully broke through to the late Spirit Embryo Realm. You personally hunted down Mo Fan and killed him. Then, you destroyed the demonic techniques to prevent Ye Chen from cultivating them. Meanwhile, you had sealed off the area around the Demon Cavern long ago.】

【Another thirty years passed. Your cultivation improved again, reaching the Great Perfection level of the Spirit Embryo Realm. However, you knew that due to the lack of materials to refine the Soul Protection Pill, you could only rely on yourself to break through to the Soul Palace Realm this time.】

【For this, you still had some confidence. Because your soul talent had been enhanced by the Magical Genius talent.】

【Fifty years passed. You finally broke through to the initial stage of the Spirit Nurturing Realm relying on yourself. You started contemplating returning to the Seven Star Archipelago. But, considering the possibility of numerous people lying in wait, you decided against it.】

【You continued to quietly cultivate in the Sword Spirit Sect. Another eighty years passed. Your cultivation progressed to the mid-Spirit Nurturing Realm. Though the speed was not satisfactory, you could still accept it.】

【However, you thought it was time to prepare for a second life. After all, being trapped on the Profound Turtle Continent, you might never break through to the Profound Elixir Realm. It would be better to prepare early, wait a few hundred years, and consider leaving afterward. By then, the people targeting you might all be dead, and you wouldn’t have to worry.】

【You thought your idea was solid and continued to endure. Meanwhile, you remembered about Ye Chen. Without the demonic cultivation, the Ring Grandpa, or other powerful beings stepping into the Profound Turtle Continent, Ye Chen eventually didn’t become a threat.】

【You believed that even a cursed star with a catastrophic fate would follow some logic. Without a force threatening you, it couldn’t be easily triggered. Naturally, you didn’t let your guard down and frequently intensified the seal on the Demon Cavern to prevent Ye Chen from breaking in.】

【Currently, Ye Chen’s cultivation was stuck at the Half-step Transcendent Realm. Without unexpected events, he did not have the power to break the seal and enter the Demon Cavern.】

【In the blink of an eye, another hundred years passed. Your cultivation reached the late Spirit Nurturing Realm.】

【However, because of your lack of assistance, both Ye Chen and Bai Tianhong failed to enter the Great Transcendence and perished in the Sword Spirit Sect. You sighed inwardly. It seemed that even the Son of Fortune’s luck was not omnipotent and, without the right conditions, could be stuck in a particular realm, leading to their demise.】
You sighed in relief, thinking to yourself that the luck of the ‘Child of Destiny’ isn’t unbeatable. Hence, you don’t need to be overly worried when encountering another ‘Child of Destiny’ in the future.

In the blink of an eye, another one hundred and fifty years passed. Your cultivation has broken through again, reaching the Grand Perfection of the Spirit Nurturing Realm. However, your time is almost up. Although you can extend your life by thirty years with a seventh-grade Longevity Pill, theoretically giving you about sixty more years to live, you couldn’t refine it due to the lack of materials, leaving you with only about thirty years.

You reflected on your life. Those you were familiar with had all passed away, leaving you melancholic and somewhat lonely. Nonetheless, you didn’t give up on the idea of cultivating and seeking longevity and began making true preparations to live a second life.

In the blink of an eye, another thirty-three years passed. Now, you’re frail and aged with little time left. After years of meditative cultivation, just as you’re about to reach your end, you successfully comprehended ninety percent of your Sword Intent.

Next, you left the prosperous Sword Spirit Sect and secretly started searching for a newborn to possess outside. You successfully began your second life.

Thanks to your powerful soul and centuries of cultivation experience, even though this new body isn’t as enhanced as your previous one, your cultivation speed isn’t slow. In fact, it’s much faster than when you first started cultivating.

At eight, you’ve reached the Postnatal stage. At eight and a half, the Innate stage. At nine, into the Spiritual Essence stage. By ten and a half, you’ve broken through to the Spirit Sea Realm. At fifteen and a half, you’ve cultivated to the Peak Spirit Sea Realm.

However, because you hurriedly fled back to the Profound Turtle Continent, you didn’t prepare the Five Elements Spiritual Materials. Although there was a sixth-grade spirit material in the Storage Spirit Ring of the Seven Star Palace Ancestor, it was only an earth-type spirit material, leaving you still four short of what you needed to break through.

Just when you were troubled by this fact, at sixteen, you unexpectedly activated your Five Elements Spiritual Body. You were extremely surprised and delighted because not just any offspring can activate a spiritual body.

Once a descendant has a Five Elements Spiritual Body, they might not need supplementary spiritual materials to break through to the Spirit Embryo Realm. Although using the spiritual materials again to break through and undergo heavenly tribulations would make the spiritual body stronger, possibly surpassing previous ancestors, it’s also possible to break through on one’s own. However, it’s very difficult for ordinary people.

In essence, the biggest difference between the Spirit Embryo Realm and the Spirit Sea Realm is the spiritual body and physical strength. Now that your spiritual body has been activated, you only need your physical strength to match that of a true Spirit Embryo Realm powerhouse.

Ordinary Spirit Embryo Realm descendants and Spirit Nurturing Realm cultivators who live a second life cannot easily temper their bodies to that level on their own. They rely on spiritual materials to break through and then undergo heavenly tribulations. But you’re different; you have high-martial arts methods to strengthen your body, making this easy for you.

Therefore, you temporarily put aside your cultivation in this aspect and shifted your focus to delving deep into the high-martial arts system.

As you were diligently cultivating, an anomaly arose in the Profound Turtle Continent. The entire continent began to tremble. Endless black mist started spreading out from the Forbidden Land of the Great Xia Royal Family. Any existence tainted by the black mist would turn into a pool of blood.

While you were cultivating, you sensed the anomaly and your expression changed drastically. You quickly flew into the sky.

Then, from above, you witnessed an extremely terrifying scene. Everywhere you looked was covered in black mist, and all life it touched either rotted or turned into blood.

When you stared at the black mist a bit longer, you felt a demonic influence creeping into your mind, making your scalp tingle. You started flying higher with closed eyes to avoid being infected by the black mist.

When you flew high enough, you noticed something. That the shape of the Profound Turtle Continent remarkably resembled a giant Profound Turtle.

As you stood there, shocked and uncertain, a horrifying aura suddenly erupted and swept across the entire Profound Turtle Continent, extending towards the surrounding seas.

Wherever the aura reached, the black mist receded, and regardless of the level of the demonic beasts, their bodies exploded, turning the ocean into a sea of blood. You too suffered in the aftermath, as your body and soul shattered in an instant, resulting in your Absolute Death.

With your death, this simulation ends

“Profound Turtle Continent! Profound Turtle Continent!”

Looking at the simulation content, Wang Ping was extremely shaken.

At first, he merely wondered why the name ‘Profound Turtle Continent’ sounded so strange.

Now it seems, there’s deep meaning behind the name Profound Turtle Continent…

Could the Profound Turtle Continent be an actual Profound Turtle?

Was the so-called continent just on the back of the Profound Turtle?

If so, that would be terrifying. What level of existence could this Profound Turtle be?

Moreover, what were those black mists, and why did they anomalously appear on the Profound Turtle Continent?

No, it should be said that they emerged from the Forbidden Land of the Great Xia Royal Family!

Then, Wang Ping recalled the feeling of dread he had experienced back in the Forbidden Land and the anomalous trial grounds, causing his scalp to tingle.

“Could that Forbidden Land and the trial grounds be a place of sealing? Is something terrifying sealed there? Could it be… a terrifying great demon?”
Wang Ping’s expression was extremely grim.

“And these black miasma are the demonic energy leaked from the Great Demon King attacking the forbidden area’s seal. The aura that appeared in this simulation is the aura of the Profound Turtle; it is suppressing the Great Demon King and stabilizing the seal.”

“MMP… I even went to the forbidden area back then. Looking back, it’s like walking on a tightrope over a cliff…”

Wang Ping felt a burst of fear in his heart and gave a bitter smile.

For the sake of a low-grade spirit weapon, he actually went to the sealing ground of a Great Demon King for a trial. It was sheer stupidity.

However, who would have known such a secret existed?

“If things are really as they seem, then the secrets of this Profound Turtle Continent are truly hair-raising.”

Pausing for a moment, Wang Ping took a deep breath. After calming down, he muttered to himself.

What is the origin of this Great Demon King that was sealed here?

And what is the origin of the Profound Turtle?

Besides, why are people from the Profound Turtle Continent despised as ‘descendants of the sinful blood’ when they go outside?

Could it be that just having the aura from the Profound Turtle’s body makes them ‘descendants of sinful blood’?

True, the Profound Turtle is so powerful that its aura not dissipating for hundreds or even thousands of years is understandable.

But there are also parts Wang Ping cannot comprehend.

Obviously, the Profound Turtle sealing such a powerful Great Demon King is removing a great scourge from the world. Why was it instead despised by those great holy sects?

For a moment, Wang Ping thought about many things, his mind in turmoil.

He knew more secrets now, but bigger mysteries also emerged, truly making it incomprehensible.

“Ding, rewards generated successfully. The host can choose two items from the following rewards:

①. Spirit Nurturing Realm Grand Completion cultivation.

②. Ninety percent Sword Intent.

③. Five Elements Fusion Technique five hundred years of cultivation insights.

④. Blue Talent · Unfinished Business.

⑤. Sunset Sword Technique five hundred years of cultivation insights.”

The system’s prompt brought Wang Ping back to his senses. He looked at the rewards, his eyes flickering.

Choosing the Spirit Nurturing Realm Grand Completion cultivation is certainly not feasible for now.

Once chosen, his combat power would certainly soar, but the spirit stones consumed for paid simulations would be immense.

Anyway, knowing that this green talent of a magical prodigy indeed enhances the talent of the soul, allowing him to break through to the Spirit Nurturing Realm on his own and eventually reach the peak of the Spirit Nurturing Realm, there is no need to rush.

He could easily refresh for this reward in the future.

Thus, choosing other options is essential.

The Blue Talent · Unfinished Business is definitely not to be missed.

Blue talent has a very low refresh rate. It’s rare to come by, and this talent is also very useful, too precious to miss.

Apart from this, ninety percent Sword Intent is also a must.
This time, he spent five hundred years calmly meditating on the sword, finally comprehending ninety percent of Sword Intent. In the next simulation, without this kind of life experience, he might not be able to comprehend it again and could very likely get stuck at the peak of eighty percent as before.

Of course, aside from the blue talent, there’s no need to overthink other options… Just keep refreshing them.

“System, I choose option ② and ④.”

Wang Ping said in his heart.

With Wang Ping’s selection, he felt a vast number of swordsmanship insights flooding his mind.

These were his insights from five hundred years of meditating on the sword.

After absorbing all these insights, Wang Ping’s gaze became exceptionally sharp. Everywhere his eyes looked, the surrounding trees and ground were torn apart.

Wang Ping exhaled lightly, retracted his Sword Intent, calmed himself, and returned to his usual state. His gaze was no longer that sharp… capable of killing with a single look.

“With ninety percent of Sword Intent, if I face the Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun again, I wonder if I can easily kill him without self-destructing…”

Wang Ping murmured to himself.

Ninety percent Sword Intent was vastly superior to the peak of sixty percent Sword Intent. Coupled with his other trump cards, his combat power had doubled.

However, having learned from this simulation, Wang Ping wouldn’t speak too confidently to avoid being proven wrong.

So, he only speculated.

“Next, let’s do another simulation. There’s no need to worry about the secrets of the Profound Turtle Continent for now. Once I become strong enough, I will naturally know everything. For now, I’ll keep simulating to become stronger and tackle the immediate crisis.”

Wang Ping’s eyes shone with determination, his thoughts many.

“System, I want to do another paid simulation.”

Then, Wang Ping said in his heart.

“Ding, a paid simulation requires the consumption of ten thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones. Will the host proceed with the purchase?”

The System’s voice rang out.

“Proceed.” Wang Ping nodded.

“Ding, purchase successful, the host’s remaining Mid-Grade Spirit Stones are now one hundred seventy thousand. Life Simulator is starting, refreshing talents…”

The System’s voice resounded once again.

“Ding, talents refreshed successfully. Congratulations to the host for not refreshing any talents.”

“…After guaranteeing good results, it’s back to crap, isn’t it…”

Wang Ping’s face darkened, unable to resist venting.

“Ding, Life Simulation begins.”

【Day 1: You knew you would be found eventually and left the deserted island, taking the initiative instead of waiting to be surrounded. You thought that even if you really faced the Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun, you had to kill him somewhere deserted. Otherwise, if the Heaven-level Technique was exposed, you’d be in more trouble.】

【In the following days, you encountered powerful enemies but easily killed them. Eventually, you were found by the Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun along with some Transcendent Realm experts from the Seven Star Palace. You engaged in a fierce battle with them.】

【From the start, you went all out, entering Berserk State and using all your means, overwhelming the Seven Star Palace Ancestor Nangong Yun. You gravely injured him, and as he tried to escape, you killed him.】

【Next, you wanted to eliminate everyone but they were cunning. As soon as the situation turned dire, they began scattering. You could not pursue and kill them all.】

【Feeling helpless, you knew the matter of the technique would eventually be exposed, so you chose to keep fleeing. You returned to the Seven Star Archipelago, killed many, and then used the teleportation array of the Seven Star Archipelago to continuously teleport.】

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